AWS Outage Matters

The corporate ladder speedrun: destroy a perfectly functioning system, make it objectively worse, get promoted, then bail before the dumpster fire you created becomes your problem. Peak software engineering right here. Dude took a Java service that ran flawlessly for 5 years and convinced management it needed a complete rewrite in Go with microservices because "modernization." The result? Slower performance, double the costs, and a memory leak that strikes at 2 AM like clockwork. But hey, that 20-page design doc had enough buzzwords to secure the L6 promotion. The best part? After getting the promo, they immediately transferred to a "chill Core Infra team" where they won't be on call for the disaster they created. Some poor new grad is now inheriting a $550k total comp nightmare. That's not upward mobility—that's a tactical extraction after carpet bombing production. Pro tip: If your promotion depends on creating "scope" and "complexity" instead of solving actual problems, you're not engineering—you're just resume-driven development with extra steps.

Nothing kicks your brain into high gear like the threat of financial ruin! This genius created the ultimate wake-up call by programming an AI to launch 100 premium EC2 instances at 6 AM daily. For the uninitiated, EC2 instances are Amazon's cloud computing servers that can cost hundreds of dollars per hour for the high-end ones. The sheer terror of potentially burning $500 per minute because you hit snooze one too many times? That's motivation no amount of coffee could ever provide. The cloud computing equivalent of putting your alarm clock across the room, except this one threatens to empty your bank account. The best part? "I haven't missed a day so far." Yeah, no kidding. Nothing says "rise and shine" like impending bankruptcy!

[text] F Mayank Joshi dermayank Dear recruiters if you are looking for Java Python PHP React Angular PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB AWS S3 EC2 ECS EKS nix system administration Git and Cl with TDD Docker Kubernetes Thats not a Full Stack Developer Thats an entire IT department 352 PM 29 Jun 21 Twitter for Mac 1403 Retweets 117 Quote Tweets 5532 Likes

Content Giulio Carrara 3rd Software Engineer 1d g Dear recruiters, if you are looking for: - Java, Python, PHP - React, Angular - PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB - AWS, S3, EC2, ECS, EKS - nix system administration - Git and CI with TDD - Docker, Kubernetes That's not a Full Stack Developer. That's an entire IT department. Yours truly 8,801 391 comments

[text] Dave Dustin venzann Genie Ill give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules No gifting no gambling no throwing it away. SRE Can use AWS Genie There are 4 rules.

Nothing destroys your financial stability quite like AWS charging you by the millisecond for that cursor blinking on your EC2 instance. One minute you're debugging, the next you're selling your kidney on the black market because you forgot to terminate that "unlimited" resource. The cloud doesn't rain money—it vacuums it directly from your bank account. Next time just stick to Notepad++ like a reasonable poverty-avoiding human.